During the 1930s Agnes Smedley was a foreign correspondent in China's battlefields.
Traveling with the 8th Route and New Fourth Armies she documented the Communist
Revolution for the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and later the
"Manchester Guardian." The following photographs were
taken of Agnes Smedley during her coverage of the revolution in China.

Agnes Smedley (center) and a military
group greeting her with a welcome sign.
1930s
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 42

"A hospital of the New 4th Army in an
ancestral temple in North Kiangsu Province,
North at Shanghai. I spent 8 months with this
army in the field and helped care for their wounded."
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 40

"Chinese armies and railway men tore up their railways to prevent
the Japanese from using them. Then the railway men carried away the steel
rails and girders and welded them into big swords for soldiers and guerrillas
to fight the enemy. This is a Chinese railway worker, member of a group
of 60 railway workers who banded together to form a cooperative. They
use blacksmith forges and bellows to melt and weld the steel rails, then
hammer them into swords for use against the enemy."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
Volume 38, MSS 122

"Captured Japanese trophies in the New
4th Army Headquarters." Agnes Smedley
was given some of the trophies (to the right). Photographer: Agnes
Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
MSS-122 Vol. 25

"A group of war-orphans of the communist guerrillas
who spent half of their time studying and half writing and presenting
small plays and singing patriotic songs for civilians and the troops.
The child in the foreground with his head down is the boy I tried
to adopt as my son."
1930s
Photographer: Agnes Smedley
Agnes Smedley Collection
Volume 38 MSS 122